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milanuk
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 Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 5:17 am Post subject: php or mod_php? |
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Hello,
For setting up a basic apache-php-mysql server, do I need to emerge php, or mod_php? Any benefits one way or the other?
TIA,
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dontremember
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 5:56 am Post subject: Re: php or mod_php? |
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| milanuk wrote: | Hello,
For setting up a basic apache-php-mysql server, do I need to emerge php, or mod_php? Any benefits one way or the other?
TIA,
Monte |
mod_php gets loaded when Apache starts up, so when it serves up a php page, there's minimal initialization. Sticks in memory, though, so if you only have a few php pages, the memory usage may be unacceptable.
php can be used as a shell for CGI scripts, or as a standalone scripting language. I've got a couple of php scripts that run from cron, for example, and they don't have anything to do with web pages. It was convenient for string-handling and ease of MySQL access. As a CGI processor, it won't have the continual memory overhead, but it will take time to start up. |
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milanuk
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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How much memory usage are we talking here? I'm looking at using this mainly on a small home server, a Celeron 266 w/ 64MB of RAM, but then again, I'm not planning on running a whole bunch of pages or having a lot of users (probably not more than 2 or 3) accessing it at the same time.
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puggy
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| milanuk wrote: | How much memory usage are we talking here? I'm looking at using this mainly on a small home server, a Celeron 266 w/ 64MB of RAM, but then again, I'm not planning on running a whole bunch of pages or having a lot of users (probably not more than 2 or 3) accessing it at the same time.
TIA,
Monte |
Should be ok. But if you don't need it, save the RAM.
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MacMasta
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I've handled 3-5 users at a time on a pentium-200 with 32 megs of ram running apache, mysql, and php, so (for light loads) you'll be fine.
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milanuk
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Well, I guess I'll go w/ mod_php then, and see how it goes. I have a feeling my php usage is going to be fairly light for a while to come 
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